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Riding rockets

The outrageous tales of a space shuttle astronaut

By Mike Mullane

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| Paperback | 9780743276832

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In 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world -- twenty-nine men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. Among them was USAF Colonel Mike Mullane, who, in his memoir Riding Rockets, strips the heroicContinue

In 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world -- twenty-nine men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. Among them was USAF Colonel Mike Mullane, who, in his memoir Riding Rockets, strips the heroic veneer from the astronaut corps and paints them as they are -- human.

Mullane's tales of arrested development among military flyboys working with feminist pioneers and post-doc scientists are sometimes bawdy, often comical, and always entertaining. He vividly portrays every aspect of the astronaut experience, from telling a female technician which urine-collection condom size is a fit to hearing "Taps" played over a friend's grave. He is also brutally honest in his criticism of a NASA leadership whose bungling would precipitate the Challenger disaster -- killing four members of his group. A hilarious, heartfelt story of life in all its fateful uncertainty, Riding Rockets will resonate long after the call of "Wheel stop."

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  • Riding Rockets By Mike Mullane

    Challenger, you're go at throttle up. Roger, Houston. Go at throttle up. Those were the last words spoken between Mission Control in Houston and the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986. Moments later the shuttle disintegrated, killing its se ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Too Much of the Right Stuff

    LATE in 1986, nine months after the disaster that destroyed the shuttle Challenger and killed its crew, Mike Mullane made an appointment with Terry McGuire, a psychiatrist consulting with NASA. Skip to next paragraph RIDING ROCKETS The Outrageous Tal ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 400 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0743276833
  • ISBN-13: 9780743276832
  • Publisher: Scribner
  • Pub date: Feb 06, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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